About this project

Update: We have been privately funded. Please check the updates for latest backer updates, game progress, and preorder information.

For My Brother follows a girl who is willing to give everything for her younger brother. As she fights to gain the powers of untamed nature in order to save him,
she becomes less and less human and their bond is changed forever.

Throw Trucks With Your Mind, our first kickstarter-backed game, hit beta as scheduled and promised to backers. Now we're excited to be back for a second title with members of the amazing Machinae Supremacy creating the soundtrack!

For My Brother is heavily inspired by the Insular Art style, (the art of the early Romanization of the British Isles), and from broader illuminated manuscripts.

Insular art has a beautiful tradition of strange and fantastic beasts, and these have been deeply inspirational in creating our own creatures for Sister to fight!

Some of the forms of Cat

The game beautifully showcases an ancient backdrop of nature, which lets the reference style really shine. It also lets us harken back to many classic standbys of the late 80's, such as parallax backgrounds, while giving a fresh new look to the 2D platformer genre.

Sidescroller puzzle platformer movement

Enemy-sparse environment with epic bosses

Defeat a boss form, gain its powers

Use your powers to explore more areas

Gameplay influences: Shadow of the Colossus, Megaman, Super Metroid

Transform along with Sister into something more powerful but no longer human.

Human Movement

Sister with Claws

Sister with Dash

This gameplay mechanic, along with animation quality, are two of the primary reasons we have decided to make a sidescrolling game with a 3D engine. After shipping our last game with UE3, we're thrilled for the chance to take advantage of all the new features of UE4. Using a 3D engine we're familiar with will allow us to produce excellent levels, bosses, and other content for you to enjoy.

Robert Stjärnström, Jonas Rörling, and Andreas "Gordon" Gerdin of Machinae Supremacy will be joining the development team to create an all-new original soundtrack for For My Brother. Machinae Supremacy has a long history of awesome, combining their love of metal, video games, and all things nerdy.

For this game they are bringing together traditional Celtic folk music with their famous SID metal for an over-the-top original soundtrack, just like they did for the trailer.

The poster, unsigned in packages $70 and up, signed in packages $130 and up

Wooden Laser Cut Pendants. Cat (leftmost) in packages $90 and up, full set in $150 and up (what you see here are mockups)

The shirt! Available in packages $110 and up! American apparel, unisex and women's cuts

The Cat Plushie! (in the $250 package and up) made with love by Diane of DianesDungeon

$5: Your name in the Credits

$15: The game and your name in the credits

$30: For my Brother, the soundtrack, and your name in the credits!

$30: add our previous game!

$50: add the soundtrack and a PDF art book!

$70 add an unsigned poster!

$90 add the Cat pendant!

$110 add a T-shirt!

$130 Get the poster signed!

$150 A full set of pendants!

$180 Special Tier: add a digital commission!

$250 add a cat plushie!

$350 Special tier: add artifacts from the music!

Special Tier $600: add a physical commission

$1000: Add a wooden 3D scene and either a digital or a physical commission

Risks and challenges

As a team, we’ve run two successful Kickstarter projects and shipped a game through Kickstarter before (Throw Trucks With Your Mind). We know what we’re getting into and we know what we need to do to make our backers happy.

We've learned a lot through this process: how we work together, how long it takes us to deliver things, the importance of minimizing the number of outside vendors, and that we never want to ship ceramic or glass rewards again.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $25 or more
About $25

This game and our previous one, early bird special! A digital copy of our game, your name in the credits, and a copy of our other title Throw Trucks With Your Mind! (Headset for Throw Trucks With Your Mind sold separately.) Both are DRM free, of course! Throw Trucks With Your Mind is available for Windows and Mac, but For My Brother will also work on Linux!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $30 or more
About $30

This game and our previous one! Get a digital copy of this game, a digital copy of Throw Trucks With Your Mind, and your name in the credits! (Headset for Throw Trucks With Your Mind sold separately.) Both are DRM free, of course! Throw Trucks With Your Mind is available for Windows and Mac, but For My Brother will also work on Linux!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $50 or more
About $50

Pretty sounds and pictures! Get the amazing soundtracks to both of our games as a DRM-free download. You will also get access to a digital PDF art book, a copy of Throw Trucks With Your Mind, a copy of For My Brother, and your name in the credits!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $90 or more
About $90

Laser cut wooden pendant of Cat (pictured on the farthest left of the set) It is about 2" in diameter and thick enough to stand up to a beating. Is it a necklace? Keychain ring? Zipper pull? Earring? You decide!

Plus you also get the unsigned poster, the art book, the soundtrack, both of our games, and your name in the credits.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $150 or more
About $150

Laser cut wooden pendant set: your single pendant replaced with a full pendant set, each boss beautifully made into an icon and laser cut into wood. They are about 2" in diameter and thick enough to stand up to a beating. Are they necklaces? Keychain rings? Zipper pulls? Earrings? You decide!

Plus you get the T-shirt, the signed poster, the digital art book, the soundtrack, both of our games, and your name in the credits.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $350 or more
About $350

Get an autographed copy of something from the recording sessions. These are objects like the sheet music, drum sticks and guitar picks used by the actual musicians who play on the score! Each will be autographed too! Needless to say, this prize will be a limited run.

You also get the plushie of the Cat, the signed poster, the full pendant set, the T-shirt, the digital art book, the soundtrack, both of our games, and your name in the credits!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge $1,000 or more
About $1,000

A beautiful laser cut wood scenery set of The Beyond. Each layer of the wood will be laser cut and then layered on top of one another, so no two are quite alike!

You also get your choice of the physical commission or the digital commission, the plushie of the Cat, the signed poster, the full pendant set, the T-shirt, the digital art book, the soundtrack, both of our games, and your name in the credits!